#gavin oconnor

“The other film school you get as an actor is you’re on set with directors and watching them work. Every few months you move from one set to another, and you get to learn from different people, and I think that a lot of directors will never get that luxury of being able to hang out on another’s person set and learn, good or bad, the qualities of another director. It’s been a real blessing for me to have that information filling me up as I’ve sort of gotten closer and closer to wanting to direct a movie. It also broke down the elements of fear that were stopping me from doing it sooner.”

–  Joel Edgerton; photographed observing the directorial techniques of directors Gavin O'Connor, Jeff Nichols, Nash Edgerton,Baz Luhrmann, and Kieran Darcy-Smith on the sets of “Jane Got a Gun,” “Loving,” “The Square,” “The Great Gatsby,” and “Wish You Were Here”